RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1901, by G. (). Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 



PAGE 



We stampeded Their Pack Outfits Frontispiece 



The Life Story of a Grizzly. Illustrated H. N. Beecher 413 



Merry Christmas to Bob White. Poem B.T.Wilson 419 



Fireside Memories. Illustrated Dr. J. H. Mackay 421 



Winter in the Maine Woods. A Camera Poem H.E.Janes 426 



December in the Woods. Poem Dwight E. Smith 430 



A Day With Muskalonge in Canada Dr. Geo. M'Aleer 431 



Firelighting Under Fire. Illustrated A.S. Doane 435 



A December Duck Shoot A. C. Goodchild 43; 



A Florida Hunting Ground. Illustrated , W. N. Pike 439 



Looking Ahead. Poem C, C. Haskins 441 



My Christmas Turkey Jas. Campion 443 



Trapping the Skunk J. A. Newton 444 



From the Game Fields 445 



Fish and Fishing 455 



Guns and Ammunition 459 



Natural History 463 



The League of American Sportsmen 469 



Forestry 473 



Pure and Impure Foods 47° 



Publisher's Notes 479 



Editor's Corner 481 



Amateur Photography 487 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-Office, Oct, 17, i{ 



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